In the process of setting up a community garden in our area, we wanted to create raised beds / planters so that the majority of the beds could be tended from a sitting position (to make it an accessible garden). A local business had donated some pallets they no longer wanted, so once we had dismantled them and removed the nails, we built some planters

During the first COVID lockdown in 2020, we spent a few hours putting together a Lego stop-motion animation film recounting the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus. That first video probably took around 4 or 5 hours to make in total, but over time as we made more and more of these bible story stop-motion videos, we pushed ourselves to create more and more elaborate sets and more ambitious movement. The last video we made probably took around 20 hours to make. You can read more about how we made the videos in a blog post from July 2020

In 2019 we re-designed the logo of St Paul and St Stephen’s church, Gloucester. The three themes that the congregation wanted to be communicated through the logo were the physical location, community and transformation. The shape and angle of the main cross that runs through the centre of the new logo is directly taken from a map of the crossroads on Stroud Road, at which St Paul and St Stephen’s stands. The OS map symbol for a church can be seen in the top left quadrant of the cross, in the exact position in which the church can be found if the logo is viewed as a map. The main cross shape shows that Jesus is at the centre of the church and community. In a lighter shade of green, four arrows point towards the centre, these symbolise inclusivity and welcome, inviting people from all walks of life to join the church. Viewed along with the four circles in darker green, these arrows become people with their arms raised in praise. The colour green represents growth, renewal and new life. Green is also the colour used to represent ‘ordinary time’ within the church year.

In 2017, we wrote a small python script for a RaspberryPi that would take a photo every 15 minutes in the daytime (calculated based on the python astral library) using an attached webcam and add a watermark and upload the picture to the web. Then, once a month in the hours of darkness, the code would generate a video timelapse (averaging the white balance of each picture) and upload that to the web. In 2018, we set up a raspberry pi and webcam in the orchard at Penhurst Retreat Centre and set it going… with limited success! The above is one of the resulting videos where the whole month worked!

In 2018 we re-designed and re-wrote the website for St Paul and St Stephen’s church in Gloucester. This was our first “mobile-first” web design where we designed it first for mobile devices, then adapted it for larger screens. We drew on much of the functionality of the St Mark’s website – the events calendar, the highlights on the front page, but we also brought the latest sermon recording onto the front page too. We also wanted all of the key information for a new visitor visible on every page, so we designed the footer of each page to have service times, contact details and a map of where the church is

We were commissioned to re-write a website for a private tutor. The previous iteration of the website had many different illustration of a compass, but these were from different sources and in different styles. So our customer asked Kiri to put together a set of compass illustrations that would be more consistent and uniform for the new site.

We were given a brief to re-write the website for a private tutor trading as Compass Tutoring. As the previous website was already pretty nicely designed, we created a custom WordPress theme, retaining most of the existing design elements and only making a few tweaks in terms of alignment of elements. The biggest change we made was to make it responsive, so that it displays well on any size screen. We also added a blog and some minimal social media sharing buttons on blog posts.

We designed the logo for St Mark’s Church in Kennington, London in 2015. We circulated a questionnaire around the congregation with regards to how the church views itself and what the important aspects of its culture are. A multitude of responses were received, reflecting the diversity of the congregation, but one key, consistent aspect cropped up again and again; that of welcome. After throwing a few ideas down on paper, we settled on the concept of an open door with light flowing ou, incorporating the shape of the church, as it has quite a recognisable silhouette. Along with the new logo we put together a pared-down style guide containing a suggested, consistent colour palette to use for all printed media and electronic media.

Charles Bridge in Prague is known for its hustle and bustle, but one of the most striking memories of my first visit to Prague in the 1990s was the beauty and tranquillity of the bridge. In order to re-discover that tranquillity, we got up early one morning on our travels to capture the golden morning light and the transition from stillness to bustle. Surprisingly, the quietest time on Charles Bridge wasn’t at 5:30 when we arrived, but around 6:30. From then, it just got busier until the stalls were all set up and the crowds had reached their mean daytime density by 10:15am, at which point we stopped the camera. 12fps using shots taken every 10 seconds for around 4 and a half hours

Whilst travelling around Europe, we stopped at Belgrade Bible college where we were asked to re-write their website. We’ tried to retain the general feel of the site, whilst making minor improvements where possible. We added a videos page, a calendar page (simple embed of a Google calendar), a blog, used consistent icons for the contact page and embedded a Google map on their contact page. We also created one stylesheet behind the whole site rather than having individual page stylesheets (as the old site did), which should help to improve consistency of pages across the site. Oh, and did we forget to mention that the site had to operate in both Serbian and English? Gotta love a bit of a challenge!